Definition of "jubilus" []

• Same as jubilatio. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The themes of angelic music reappear in inverted form in the music of Hell and the devils: from the concord of una voce (“unison”) is derived discord and disorder; the sine fine (“without end”) of the jubilus becomes"
• "Latin (John, xix, 25) "with reference to Mary at the Cross, but not at the Cradle", and also that the sixth line, "Pertransivit gladius", might have suggested the similar line of the Speciosa, "Pertransivit jubilus", but not vice versa."
• "Of the above-mentioned six phases in the development of the sequence the first and second are very obscure in two respects, as regards (1) the appearance of the Alleluia-jubilus without the text and (2) the relation to the so-called Gregorian Alleluia."